Available have been, seated, from left, Don Elder and Ron Martin, each of whom labored there as bricklayers; and standing, Ron Georgette, mill/welder; Rick Cook dinner, BOP Mechanical Superintendent; and Paul Frey, mechanical engineer.
The file picture at proper was taken in March 2019 by Michael D. McElwain of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Each day Instances
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Available have been, seated, from left, Don Elder and Ron Martin, each of whom labored there as bricklayers; and standing, Ron Georgette, mill/welder; Rick Cook dinner, BOP Mechanical Superintendent; and Paul Frey, mechanical engineer.
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The file picture at proper was taken in March 2019 by Michael D. McElwain of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Each day Instances
A small group of former staff of the fundamental oxygen plant in Weirton, which was demolished in March 2019 after half a century of steelmaking historical past, met at Tudor’s Biscut World to have a good time the 90th anniversary of to their former co-worker – Ron Martin of East Springfield, seated proper. . The gathering was a possibility not solely to mark Martin’s birthday but additionally to reminisce about days passed by, because the pensioners had not all been collectively for greater than 20 years. Available have been Don Elder and Martin, each of whom labored there as millers; and Ron Georgette, millwright/welder; Rick Cook dinner, BOP Mechanical Superintendent; and Paul Frey, mechanical engineer. Elder commented after the assembly that Martin advised the story of how there wasn’t a spot within the BOP he hadn’t been and he all the time marked with chalk when he was there. “We have been all devastated when the BOP and the property have been offered after which torn down,” Elder commented. Based on the newspaper story that appeared after the BOP was demolished, the plant opened in 1967 and was named “The Mill of the Future” by former president Thomas E. Millsop for bringing collectively three state-of-the-art applied sciences—primary oxygen steelmaking, vacuum degassing, and steady casting—for the primary time in an automatic, high-volume operation within the 1960s. Millsop , who earlier in his profession had been chairman of Weirton Metal and Weirton’s first mayor, died weeks earlier than the primary warmth rolled off the manufacturing line in November 1967. It was a part of the 1,100-acre parcel Frontier acquired in 2017 from ArcelorMittal, which now not wanted it for steelmaking.